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America We Stand As One... OMG! WTF?

I'm speechless. Holy crap.

This is what everyone has been talking about, quite possibly the cheesiest music video ever created.

America We Stand As One Website

The Video's original page

Link to an article on the video. Freakin' hilarious!


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Boba Fett joins the blog community

Damn, everyone and his brother is blogging now-a-days

"My name is Boba Fett, I'm a bounty hunter. This blog my means to express myself in a manner that doesn't involve putting holes in sentient beings for credits... I hope you enjoy it. Oh and by the way, I'm not as dead as many in the galaxy would like to believe."

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Navigate Google without a mouse

Straight from the Google Labs: How to navigate Google without a mouse.

"Google Keyboard Shortcuts allows you to explore search results quickly and easily without taking your hands off of the keyboard to use the mouse."

Be aware though:
Requirements
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Internet Explorer 5+, Netscape 6, or Mozilla
Javascript enabled
Cookies enabled (optional)
For Macintosh, Netscape 6 or Mozilla is recommended. Google Keyboard Shortcuts does not fully work on Mac Internet Explorer.

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What is Bluetooth?

This article from USAToday.com explains Bluetooth for those who don't know what it is, or does.

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What is Bluetooth?

This article from USAToday.com explains Bluetooth for those who don't know what it is, or does.

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Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Here's something I stumbled upon this morning. Everyone's heard of LED (Light Emitting Diodes), but maybe not the organic versions. Here is a little background on this cool technology:

From The Wikipedia:
"An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is a thin-film light-emitting diode (or light-emitting device) (LED) in which the emissive layer is an organic compound. These devices promise to be much cheaper to fabricate than inorganic LEDs. When the emissive layer is polymeric, varying amounts of OLEDs can be deposited in arrays on a screen using simple "printing" methods to create a graphical colour display, for use as television screens, computer displays, portable system screens, and in advertising and information board applications. OLED panels may also be used as lighting devices. OLEDs are available as distributed sources while the inorganic LEDs are point sources of light. Prior to standardization, OLED technology was also referred to as OEL or Organic Electro-Luminescence.

One of the great benefits of an OLED display over the traditional LCD displays found in computer displays is that OLED displays don't require a backlight to function. This means that they draw far less power and they can be used with small portable devices which have mostly been using monochrome low-resolution displays to conserve power. This will also mean that they will be able to last for long periods of time with the same amount of battery charge."



Read more about OLEDs:
Wikipedia
PCWorld article
Yahoo News article
www.oled-display.net

Holographic memory becomes a reality

Excerpts from the article:

"InPhase Technologies and Maxell will demonstrate the device, named Tapestry, at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas later today.

The prototype is a 300GB drive that can store over 35 hours of broadcast-quality high-definition video on a single removable 12cm disk... It is also the child of the Tapestry family, with the company planning a range of holographic drives with capacities up to 1.6TB.

Holographic storage disks are particularly well suited to applications like broadcasting and video editing because of the fact that data is read and recorded in parallel, a million bits at a time. The prototype has a data transfer rate of 27Mbit/s.

This polytopic recording technique enables more holograms to be stored in the same volume of material by overlapping not only pages, but also books of data. This dramatically increases the storage density to around 200 gigabits per square inch, significantly higher than any other optical format."

Futurama Bender case mod

Although the site isn't in english, the pics are worth a thousand words. Follow along as some of your fellow geeks build a Bender case for their system.

Triumph the Comic Insult Dog and Star Wars Nerds

Okay some of you may have seen this, since it was originally done when EPII came out. But it's still freakin' hilarious. And since EPIII is just around the corner...


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How optimized is your site?

This handy website will help you get real stats on how well your site is optimized. Very handy.

Japanese develop new 3D display

credit: University of Tokyo, Japan


From the article:
"The display uses so-called integral photography to generate its 3D images. A computer divides up the image into pixels that are either printed on photographic film or shown on a flat screen display. When passed through an array of lenses the result is a 3D image with a depth of 5.7 m or more in front of the display and 3.5 m or more behind the display."

Seiko's new e-paper display watch

Seiko has developed a watch using the new "electronic paper" as a display device. Very cool. I've been watching the development of "electronic paper" for a number of years now. It's very cool to see it start to find it's way into products.

A fully functional Mech

Remember that mech I mentioned a few days ago? Well, I found one that not only walks, but has two, count them, *TWO* fully functional guns. (It doesn't shoot bullets, instead what appears to be tennis balls) The site has video of the mech walking and using it's "guns".



Note that it's "walking" isn't traditional walking but more like as foot sliding, but it does move and does "walk". Still very cool stuff!

Dude...look at all the cool colors....woah!

//// COLOURlovers:: a place to view, rate and review some lovely colours & palettes. the idea is to create a place of color inspiration where a designer of any sort can see new and lovely colours... find out what colors are hot, what work well in other uses... and simply make some love with colour.

Swim like a dolphin

I've seen this sub/watercraft before on the Discovery Channel and it is very cool. I'm not much for boats and such, let alone subs, but this one I would love to get a ride in! Very cool stuff!

Star Wars fans lining up already...but at the wrong theater

It seems some die-hard Star Wars fans are already lining up at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood...only there's one problem, 20th Century Fox isn't going to be showing the new Star Wars movie there. They're instead planning on showing it down the street at the ArcLight Theater.

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Moondust - The Ultimate Abrasive

Something that never occered to me:

"Lunar dust is extremely abrasive -- and unavoidable -- as astronauts quickly learned during the Apollo missions of the 1960s and '70s. Within hours, the dust covered the astronauts' spacesuits and equipment, scratching lenses and corroding seals...Under prolonged exposure, the explorers would be at risk for everything from mechanical failures in spacesuits and airlocks to lung disease, said researchers last week at a NASA workshop focused on the issue."

retroCRUSH

Aw man this site is great. It's like heaven, especially if you're in your late twenties to mid thirties. Pop culture Gen-X style baby!

Build Your Own Mech

Carlos Owen is in the process of building his own mech. That's right a mech.... It stands 18 feet tall and the arms are functional, his next step is getting this bad boy to walk. I'm rootin' for ya Carlos!